Evaluating sustainable pathways to climate-resilient agriculture: recent experiences from an IFAD evaluation
The agrifood systems and climate change nexus
Impact Evaluation: How far have we come?
The impact evaluation challenge of the evaluation community.
Using Artificial Intelligence to search for evidence in evaluations: the WFP experience
Since 2022, the Office of Evaluation of the World Food Programme (WFP) has invested in promoting the use of evidence generated by its evaluations, developing its ability to respond to evidence needs as they arise.
Conducting MEL with digital agriculture service providers – lessons from leveraging MEL to develop farmer-centric digital services
From the EvalForward communityVisual tools are powerful - Handle with care!
Reflections on the Evalforward discussion ‘Can visual tools help evaluators communicate and engage better?’
Leaving no one behind: Meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities in evaluations
Many evaluators work in contexts where there is little to no existing data to help identify persons with disabilities for participation in evaluations, and other consultation or assessments.
What kind of evaluator are you? Exploring different evaluator paradigms
This blog explores the different paradigms evaluators may have and questions how these paradigms interplay with evaluators’ backgrounds and influence their practices.
Will artificial intelligence replace us as evaluators?
Technological progress can make jobs obsolete, will evaluators follow suit?
“Here we go again” - A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects
There is an apparent irony in the fact that systems supposedly designed to help us learn from experience have been so reluctant to learn from their own experience.
Evaluators are interpreters. What about ChatGPT?
Is Artificial Intelligence smart enough to make our evaluation work easier, and how far we can go with using it?
Monitoring and evaluation in the agriculture and rural development sectors ‒ reflections on the NEC Conference
Three lessons from an SDG evaluation: doing away with tunnel vision
FAO Office of Evaluation is currently concluding its evaluation of FAO’s contribution to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, “ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”.